CHAPTER 14

LIES

Tonya was still typing on her computer until the rest of the group came into the main lobby.

Margaret looked around for Sky but didn’t see him. “Hey, Tonya?” She called. “Where’s Sky?”

Tonya looked over to her and shrugged, “He went outside to take a call from his boss.”

“Boss?” Margaret repeated. ‘But I thought...’

Shadow looked around for any sign of Espio but didn’t see him neither. “Hey has anyone seen Espio?”

“No sign of Espio anywhere, Captain Shadow”, Charmy replied as he continued to look around.

“He’s missing too?” Rouge asked herself.

Tonya looked away from her computer and saw Sky walking back into the building confronting her. She quickly finished up one last thing and turned to him with a smile. “Oh there you are, Sky. I just finished with my work.”

He formed a friendly smile, “I’m glad.” He took her hand gently and looked up at her. “Tonya, could we go somewhere and talk...alone?”

She was confused that he wanted to go someplace alone with her to just talk, but she would do anything as long as they were together. “Sure.” She then led them towards the back and into Vector’s office.

“This...is weird”, Margaret said. “Something isn’t right here.”

“Something’s not right?” Rouge asked blankly.

The crocodile nodded and turned to Charmy, “Charmy, search on Tonya’s computer for The Silver Fangs.”

The bee saluted, “Yes ma’am!” He jumped into Tonya’s desk chair and began to search on the computer.

“Margaret, what’s wrong?” Rouge asked.

She turned to Shadow and Rouge full of worry, “Think for a moment. Sky can’t be talking with his boss if he went to that detective meeting.”

Shadow and Rouge’s eyes widened in shock realizing that Margaret was right. They haven’t heard from Vector in awhile so Sky shouldn’t be hearing from his boss either.

When Sky and Tonya were inside of Vector’s office, Sky quietly closed the door and confronted Tonya. He traced his fingers over her lips. “Tonya, there’s something I must tell you.”

“What is it?” She began to worry. Sky had never acted this way towards her before.

He sighed as he began to speak, “I’m going to leave for Metal City soon and I want...you to come with me.”

The cat’s eyes widened in surprise. He wanted her to come with him. She loved him and wanted to be with him, but Tech City was her home. She couldn’t leave all of her friends. She bit her lip gently as she looked back at Sky slowly. “Sky...” She spoke.

“Yes?”

“I...I...can’t. I love my job and I love my friends. I...can’t leave.”

The bat turned away from her sadly and sighed, “...Fine.”

Before he could leave, she took his hand and leaned her body against his. “Sky, understand that I do love you, but this place is my home.”

He turned to her and hugged her sadly, “I understand.” He pulled away and looked into her eyes. “One last kiss before I go?”

She made a small nod and leaned in on him to kiss his soft lips.

Back in the main lobby, Charmy finally found out about the Silver Fangs on a website. “Hooray! I found it!”

Margaret leaned over to him to look at what was on the computer screen.

There was a moment of silence until they all heard Margaret gasp in shock.

“Oh God!” She said full of panic.

Shadow wondered what was getting into Margaret all of a sudden. “What?”

“What is it, Margaret?” Rouge asked.

The crocodile turned to them full of hatred in her eyes. “The leader of The Silver Fangs detective team is Kiba...Kiba Toekei.”

Back in Vector’s office, Sky and Tonya were sharing their last passionate kiss before Sky had to leave for Metal City.

Tonya couldn’t help but to moan as she felt her lover’s tongue explore her mouth with his arms traveling around her upper body and towards her lower body. She tilted her head back with her neck exposed to him.

Sky took his mouth away from hers and stared at her soft neck in hunger it seemed as he licked his lips.

She felt him undo the first two buttons of her shirt and soon felt his lips gently kissing her neck. She embraced his body as she felt his soft tongue massaging her neck. “Sky”, she moaned.

With his fangs getting longer, he could not hold himself back any longer. He then suddenly sunk his fangs into her neck.

As she suddenly felt the piercing of his fangs in her neck, her eyes widened in panic.

Meanwhile in the main lobby, Shadow, Rouge, and Charmy stood there full of confusion towards Margaret’s behavior because of the leader of The Silver Fangs.

“Margaret, what’s with this Kiba guy?” Shadow asked. “Who is he?”

Before she could explain, they were all startled by a weakened purple chameleon who came through the front door with blood dripping from the side of his head.

The black hedgehog ran over to the chameleon in worry. “Espio!”

The chameleon collapsed in the hedgehog’s arms full of exhaustion. “Shadow”, he panted. “Don’t...trust him.”

“Who?” He asked.

“Sky”, Espio said hoarsely. “He...he’s after our files...and Tonya.”

Shadow couldn’t believe what Espio was saying. He thought Sky could be trusted and he didn’t want to ask if Sky had done this to him. “Wha-what?”

Before anyone could do anything, they all heard screaming coming from Tonya who ran into the main lobby and collapsed onto the floor with blood arising from her neck.

“Tonya!” Charmy shouted in worry. “What’s wrong?”

“Sky! He...” Before she could explain and get back off of the floor, she was suddenly grabbed by her arm and held in a tight grip by the white bat behind her.

Rouge’s eyes widened as she saw blood covering Sky’s mouth. “...Sky”, she murmured. “Is that...blood?”

Everyone then saw him take out a gun from his belt pocket and point it at Tonya’s head.

“Tonya!” Espio had hoped Sky wouldn’t shoot her.

“Release her, Sky!” Rouge demanded.

The bat smirked while showing off his long sharp fangs. “Rouge, you always wanted to know what happened to me right?”

She stood silent and couldn’t believe what a monster Sky really was.

“Well”, he said. “I’ll tell you. Remember Uncle and Auntie’s murder? Well, guess who killed them and drained their blood?”

Rouge placed her hands over her mouth and gasped. “It was...you?”

He made a nod.

Rouge could feel tears rising from her eyes in sadness in anger. “Sky, how...could you? How could you kill your own parents!”

Tonya was shocked about him killing his parents as well.

“Simple”, he spoke calmly. “I was thirsty.”

Rouge clenched her fists and tried to prevent herself from breaking down and start crying.

“Come on, little sister. You know what vampire bats have to go through when they’re young”, Sky began. “Their natural aggressiveness is taken away from them to prevent any reckless killings from happening in the world, but I thought I shouldn’t become like the rest. I should be the one to keep what was mine in the first place. But my mother and father...they were going to force me to go through with it! I wouldn’t allow that to happen. You know what I did next?”

Rouge placed her hands over her head and didn’t want to hear how he killed her aunt and uncle.

“I hacked their bodies to pieces! Large amounts of blood spilling from their bodies! All of it painting the entire house red!” He shouted as he laughed. “Oh God! Killing them was the best kill I had made my entire life!”

“But...” Rouge had wept. “But I thought you hated blood?”

Sky arched an eyebrow, “Yeah right! Like a vampire bat would ever consider blood disgusting! Observe closely, Rouge. Does this answer your question?”

Rouge watched in horror as Sky licked some of the blood away from Tonya’s neck. “Sky!” She shouted.

Margaret clenched her fists in frustration, “Stop this right now, Sky! I know who sent you!”

He saw Espio trying to get to his feet with the help of Shadow and thought that he had already told them everything. “Oh, really?”

“Well?” She spoke. “What did he send you for?”

Sky then shoved the barrel of the gun closer to Tonya’s head. “The disk...give me the disk with your team members’ files on them.”

“What?” Margaret said full of confusion. “Why do you want that?”

“Just give it to me!” He shouted as his finger was settled on the trigger. “Or I will kill her!”

Tonya began to sob and wanted to imagine that none of this was really happening.

Margaret didn’t really know what to do, but she couldn’t risk losing someone. ‘Damn! What do I do?’ She sighed and looked over to Shadow, “Shadow”, she spoke. “Give him the disk.”

He hesitated to move to do so. “But...”

“Just do it!”

Shadow sighed softly and slowly walked over to Tonya’s computer while giving Sky a cold look. ‘I can’t believe that guy! He seemed so sane. What the hell happened?’

While Shadow was getting the disk ready from the computer, Tonya looked over to Sky who had her tightly in his grip with tears of sadness dripping from her face. “Sky”, she sobbed. “How could you lie to us like this?”

The bat shrugged, “It’s my job. Deal with it.”

She still couldn’t believe he could be so cold hearted even if it was his job. ‘His...job?’

After Shadow was finished preparing the disk, he took it out of the disk drive and walked over to Sky with it in his hand.

The bat gave him a cold look and quickly snatched the disk from his hands.

“There you have the disk, now let Tonya go”, Shadow ordered.

The bat smirked and began to slowly walk out of the door. “Let her go? I never said anything about letting her go.”

As rage filled his body, Shadow couldn’t help but to draw his gun as he saw Sky turn and run out of the door. “Sky!” He pulled the trigger to his gun and began shooting to stop him. He ran outside with the rest of the group following him. He looked up at the sky and saw the bat using his wings to fly away with Tonya in his possession. He continued to shoot at him until Rouge knocked the gun out of his hands. He looked over to her in confusion, “Why’d you do that for?”

“Stop shooting at them! You might hit Tonya!” She shouted in tears.

Shadow froze for a second and knew that she was right, but at the same time he hated to let him get away. “But...” He murmured, “He’s getting away...”

Espio looked up at the sky and realized he couldn’t do anything to save Tonya. He had never felt so useless before. “Tonya...”

Margaret watched as Sky flew away, “Not only that”, she spoke softly. “They have Vector as well...”

The group faced Margaret, acting as though they didn’t know what to do.

Margaret turned to them with her fists clenched in anger. “Get ready because we’re going to save Tonya and Vector!”

A/N: Is this the end? Well, apparently not. The conclusion of this fic will continue in ny next fic that will be coming at you soon. Thanks for reading!